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The Great Christmas Tree of 1990

“We’re going up to Big Bear to get a Christmas tree. Do you girls want to come?” Uncle Frank, with his perpetual twinkle in the eye, pitched my cousin Cat and I. Cat, short for Catalina, was my favorite cousin of all time - a remarkable feat considering I have twenty-seven cousins on my mothers side alone. Six years my senior, Cat, widely regarded as th…